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maybe more important is.. what would happen to life on the planet?

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that's right, i am not religious

it doesn't sound believable to me. deflation is solvable by just printing money is it not?

and keep lcd's on the native refresh rate, for lcd's it doesn't matter. only for crt higher refresh rates are better for the eyes.

a very wise (and professionally trained person) once told me that every fear boils down to the fear of death. if you release that, there are no fears.

any modern up to date off the shelf pc will do imo. good internet connection is the most important. ps. your pc doesn't look modern at all..

look at broker reviews on elitetrader, IB is by far the best of them all, especially for large accounts who don't need hand-holding. when i traded retail i loved them. they have additional assurance above SIPC as well. ps. reasons: ameritrade will f*ck you probably over much more money than...

i am just a lurker and not a contributor, but i know there are a lot of people viewing this thread like me every day. as for me, eventhough i might not be able to replicate it, or i might not have developed the gut instinct, i still would be very interested to hear a little more. -edit...

decimalization in equities versus es: profits in equities were going down anyway, because of the after-bubble effect. there are still stocks with relatively large tick size: SUNW / JDSU come to mind. only way to trade those is with rebates. on futures you don't have rebates but a centralized...

great news. edit 'snip'

i like the clogs

key is to have a real edge, and have a real edge that allows for big position size. i have a real edge, but it's boring and only small position size. maybe someone else can enlighten us for a real big edge :)

great responses, thanks! in response to acrary: a theory: often in trading, but also in other endeavors, i keep raising the bar after some good results, until it becomes too difficult to keep up. at that point my discipline breaks down. maybe i just ask too much from myself?

any thoughts on self-sabotage? Trading is easy, but damn hard for me to go through the day without losing control at some point.

that's easy, GOOG. people saying GOOG is overvalued are the same saying the market is due for a decline since november.

drop out of college now you still can

ok i did a little research myself. isn't it usual banks lend "long" money and borrow short? In that case a yield curve going inverted should indeed mean bad news for banks. I am not sure that's all there is though. and the reason why the guy was buying banks on the rate cut is because the...

why financials? i heard somebody was buying all the financials he could when greenspan unexpectedly *lowered* rates in 2001. :confused:

for the bastards in the pit it's an easy arb :(